Seminars "Dialogues from the Global South"
Living the Life: Fear, Privatism, and Presentism in Elite Brazilian Condominiums and US Gated Communities.
Since the 1970s, luxurious enclosed housing developments have proliferated throughout Brazil and have become one of the preferred housing options for the elites. In this presentation, Dr. Rafael Estrada Mejía (UNESP, Brazil) discusses gated communities as the new version of the colonial Portuguese fort with four main functions: to render impossible the entrance of the undesirable; to hide the existence of strategic wealth, to offer surveillance of the enemy, and to defend its resident from public life and the assumed excessive, marked sociability that characterizes life outside the walls. Finally, Dr. Estrada Mejía compares the main characteristics and functions of gated communities in Brazil and the United States—where this housing type originated (Reception will follow lecture). Organized by the Department of Anthropology; co-sponsored by Latin American and Iberian Studies (LAIS)/Center for Global and Area Studies (CGAS); Center for Black Culture; Departments of Black American Studies, Geography and History.
Tuesday, October 25, 2016 at 5:00pm to 7:30pm
Gore Hall, Room 208
Gore Hall, University of Delaware, Newark, DE 19716, USA
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